MURITAI EXCURSION

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 108, 31 January 1930, Page 6

MURITAI EXCURSION

AN ENJOYABLE OUTING. Some 800 people availed themselves of the splendid opportunity of seeing the beauties of Wellington harbour from the Eastbourne Borough Council's ferry bat Muritai yesterday, when she made her second daylight excursion for this year. The vessel left the wharf at 10.30 a.m. for Miramar, missing, fortunately for those on ,board, the heavy rain which fell in the city shortly before 11 o’clock yesterday morning. Miramar was reached about lialf an hour after the vessel left the wharf, and the bout then leisurely cruised round Point Halswell, past Karaka Buy and Seatoun as far as the Heads. The Muritai then turned near I’cncarrow lighthouse and steamed down the coast to Ilona Buy. Slightly over an hour was spent here, where most of the passengers went ashore for lunch. Ilona Bay was left again at 2 p.m., the vessel proceeding next to tlie new Point Howard Wharf, where I hose on board hud a splendid view of the Texas Oil Company’s .11,600-ton motortanker Australia, the largest vessel of her kind, and the first to berth at tlie new wharf. A course was then set for Somes Island, the Muritai cruising close inshore, and then doubling back to Ngahauranga and Kaiwarra, thence picking her way through- the coal hulks Io the wharf, where she berthed nt 3.40 p.m. i